Flashcard - Psychological Assessment

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What was the primary purpose of the civil service testing program implemented in ancient China?

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To assess work performance and promotions

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During which dynasty was a multi-stage national testing program established in China?

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Ming Dynasty

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Who proposed the theory of 'survival of the fittest'?

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Charles Darwin

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What did Alfred Binet aim to identify with the Binet-Simon Scale?

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Intellectually subnormal children

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What was the first structured personality test developed during World War I?

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Woodworth Personal Data Sheet

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What does the mean represent in a distribution?

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The arithmetic average of scores

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Which type of scale has both magnitude and equal intervals but no absolute zero?

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Interval Scale

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What does a percentile rank indicate?

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The percentage of scores below a particular score

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What is the purpose of regression analysis?

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To predict scores on one variable from another

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What does the coefficient of determination (r²) represent?

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The proportion of variation explained by a variable